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New Ants from the Philippines 
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rectangular behind, the base feebly convex, about four 
times as long as the abrupt and slightly concave declivity. 
Petiolar node flattened above, about one and one-third times 
as long as broad, distinctly broader behind than in front, 
with sharp anterior and posterior corners, straight, mar- 
ginate sides and anterior border and arcuately excised pos- 
terior border ; in profile somewhat longer than high, the an- 
terior surface of the nodes straight and perpendicular, the 
dorsal surface straight and horizontal, the posterior sur- 
face concave, the ventral surface anteriorly with a later- 
ally compressed, triangular, translucent lamella and pos- 
teriorly with a thick, transverse projection. Postpetiole 
subelliptical, broader than long, somewhat broader than the 
petiole and slightly narrower in front than behind, its dor- 
sal surface feebly convex in profile, perpendicularly trun- 
cated anteriorly, its ventral surface with a transverse welt 
anteriorly. Gaster slender, more than three times as 
long as broad, first segment decidedly longer than broad, 
the second broader than long. Legs short, shaped as in the 
other species, the flattened, middle and hind femora less 
than twice as long as broad. Wings short, measuring only 
about 4 mm. 
Moderately shining mandibles coarsely striate-punctate; 
clypeus, head an throax evenly, longitudinally rugulose;- 
pedicel and gaster finely reticulate, with coarse, sparse, 
piligerous punctures; scapes and legs smoother and more 
shining, with finer and more scattered punctures. 
Pilosity yellowish, short and moderately abundant, ob- 
lique on the head and thorax, longer on the legs and abdo- 
men, appressed or subappressed on the latter ; anterior bor- 
der of pronotum with a few conspicuously long, erect hairs. 
Wings covered with short, brown hairs. 
Black ; mandibles, clypeus, anterior borders of cheeks and 
posterior borders of postpetiole and gastric segments red- 
dish brown; tips of scapes, funiculi, trochanters, basitarsi, 
tips and bases of femora and tibiae more yellowish brown; 
remaining tarsal joints yellow. Wing membranes brown- 
ish ; veins and peterostigma dark brown. 
Described from a single specimen captured by Prof. C. 
F. Baker at Dapitan, on Mindanao Island, Philippines. 
